The Fund for Mitchell County, an affiliate of The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina (CFWNC), is accepting applications for its spring grant cycle from nonprofits serving Mitchell County. Grants of up to $3,000 are available to nonprofit organizations and public agencies for charitable purposes, including programmatic needs and operating expenses. The deadline to apply is February ...(more)
Overwhelming response in both Mitchell and Yancey counties to the vaccine clinics has led to long lines and traffic jams. Cars began lining up around 4 am in Yancey County yesterday. By 7:30 people were being turned away and told to come back after noon. At 12:30 Yancey Health Department was again at full capacity and had to shut down the clinic. Yancey began their clinic this morning at 7 ...(more)
Forty-three year old Robin Daniels Eudy of Bakersville has been arrested and charged with death of her boyfriend, Joshua Brandon Pritchard. On Thursday, January 14, 2021, shortly after 8 p.m., deputies with the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Wildrose Drive in Marion where they found the lifeless body of 37 year old Joshua Brandon Pritchard. Pritchard’s body was ...(more)
Yancey Co Numbers (Courtesy Yancey Co Health Dept) as of 1/12/21 as of 7:31 PM New positives – 18 New recovered – 26 New Deaths – 1 Total Positives – 1312 Total Recovered – 1123 Total Deaths – 13 Total Active – 176 Local EM Update On January 11th we had the lowest number of new positive cases on a Monday since November 9th. Yesterday marked the ...(more)
